- Joined
- Nov 25, 2001
- Location
- Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Hi peeps,
This is usually an issue with "brick and mortar" stores rather than online retailers or mail order vendors, you usually get a nice letter sized laser printed receipt from many the latter two. Register receipts, printed on cash registers however, have been arousing my ire and suspicion lately. Usually affected are the black printed ones, however the dot matrix printed and old skool purpleish ones are unaffected. What has been happening to me is that these receipts I have saved have faded completely blank or enough to be illegible over a period of time.
Now, if some of these were receipts from like 8 years ago, I wouldn't give a hoot, but it seems to have been happening on receipts as young as 6 months old. Bear in mind that retailer warranties are often a year, and you can see the problem here. Even if they faded after a year or 18 months though, this is still unacceptable since you still need them for longer manufacturer warranties.
What brought this to my attention, was that I've got some of those flourescent energy saver bulbs. They have a five year warranty, I bought them about 18 months ago. One died, so I go looking for the receipt and find 3 or 4 blank pieces of paper where I put my receipts. One of them might be the receipt for the bulbs, I don't know, I can't tell. Even angling them to the light shows no sign of printing on the damn things.
Now what makes me mad is the thought that this might be a deliberate ploy. Seems that this problem has been known about for a couple of years and has caused problems for others...
http://www.redleafinstitute.org/Index.cfm?Section=BN&Page=BN14#article2
The suggestion in that article to photocopy your receipts is a very good one. I am going to be doing that myself now where high ticket items are involved.I would suggest stapling the original to the copy as well, since they might be suspicious of the copy. Maybe rip the corner off the original before copying or mark it uniquely in some way so that the feature on the copy can be used to identify the original even though the print faded out.
Also, I think I am going to ask for permanent receipts at stores, I'm just going to stand there and demand a receipt that will not fade. If we all start doing this hopefully the message will get through.
Stores in the Fading Receipt Hall of Shame currently include;
Canadian Tire
Walmart
Others will be added as posted, demand permanent receipts from these stores!
regards,
Road Warrior
This is usually an issue with "brick and mortar" stores rather than online retailers or mail order vendors, you usually get a nice letter sized laser printed receipt from many the latter two. Register receipts, printed on cash registers however, have been arousing my ire and suspicion lately. Usually affected are the black printed ones, however the dot matrix printed and old skool purpleish ones are unaffected. What has been happening to me is that these receipts I have saved have faded completely blank or enough to be illegible over a period of time.
Now, if some of these were receipts from like 8 years ago, I wouldn't give a hoot, but it seems to have been happening on receipts as young as 6 months old. Bear in mind that retailer warranties are often a year, and you can see the problem here. Even if they faded after a year or 18 months though, this is still unacceptable since you still need them for longer manufacturer warranties.
What brought this to my attention, was that I've got some of those flourescent energy saver bulbs. They have a five year warranty, I bought them about 18 months ago. One died, so I go looking for the receipt and find 3 or 4 blank pieces of paper where I put my receipts. One of them might be the receipt for the bulbs, I don't know, I can't tell. Even angling them to the light shows no sign of printing on the damn things.
Now what makes me mad is the thought that this might be a deliberate ploy. Seems that this problem has been known about for a couple of years and has caused problems for others...
http://www.redleafinstitute.org/Index.cfm?Section=BN&Page=BN14#article2
The suggestion in that article to photocopy your receipts is a very good one. I am going to be doing that myself now where high ticket items are involved.I would suggest stapling the original to the copy as well, since they might be suspicious of the copy. Maybe rip the corner off the original before copying or mark it uniquely in some way so that the feature on the copy can be used to identify the original even though the print faded out.
Also, I think I am going to ask for permanent receipts at stores, I'm just going to stand there and demand a receipt that will not fade. If we all start doing this hopefully the message will get through.
Stores in the Fading Receipt Hall of Shame currently include;
Canadian Tire
Walmart
Others will be added as posted, demand permanent receipts from these stores!
regards,
Road Warrior